A new Netflix documentary, Turning Point: Generation 9/11 by director Brian Knappenberger, examines how the 11 September 2001 attacks reshaped the United States, framed around the fact that half of Americans were now born after, or too young to remember, the event. Rather than retreading familiar images of the attacks, the film focuses on how decisions made in their aftermath changed the country, addressing a younger generation for whom 9/11 is increasingly a distant historical event rather than a lived memory, comparing its remoteness to how earlier generations viewed the Hiroshima bombing.

The documentary centres on people whose lives were directly shaped by the tragedy, including Laurel Homer, daughter of United Flight 93 co-pilot LeRoy Homer, who was 10 months old when he died fighting hijackers over Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and now faces online abuse and conspiracy theories about her father's death. It also features An Nguyen, whose father Khang, a Vietnamese immigrant working at the Pentagon, was killed on the day, aged just four at the time. Knappenberger, who has previously made documentaries on the "war on terror", the cold war and Vietnam, says the film aims to record the human cost of 9/11 and prompt reflection on what kind of country the decisions since have created.